Friday, September 7, 2012

Newly created Plastique heromorph makes me feel "explosive"

So this came about in a rather unique way. There's this artist on Deviant Art who specializes in heromorph fan art check it out: http://daswookofheromorph.deviantart.com/gallery/ I started using his stuff a couple of weeks back for my other blog and from that we started to chat a bit at Deviant Art. About a week ago he asked me if there's anybody he hasn't done yet I'd like to see for which I suggested Plastique. And wouldn't ya know it this showed up in his gallery just a couple of days ago.
Did you know that Plastique only appeared in the first 3 issues (1987) of the entire John Ostrander Suicide Squad series? Aside from some kind of love triangle she was a part of along with Captain Atom and Nightshade I don't know much about what happened with the character since then.

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That is until 2006 when she turned up in Checkmate #6 (Vol. 2) in which Amanda Walleras Checkmate's White Queen secretly reactivated the Suicide Squad. As you can see from the clip art it was business as usual with things going wrong even before the mission got under way. Would you want to go on a dangerous gig with this group?

HA! I laughed when I saw the title, and then what it was about this time, Dave. He did a fantastic job. I love that line "It's called the Suicide Squad for a reason". Sometimes you can kind of forget that these people aren't necessarily supposed to come back, or that some of them might not care if they do.

yeah that's from Checkmate #6 (Vol. 2). it cracks me up how ICICLE is like "we are so screwed tomorrow" after having gotten dissed by Javelin and then walking in on Mirror Master doing some blow. both 6 and 7 are really good issues and were the return of the Suicide Squad after what was basically a 14 year hiatus with the exception of the Superboy appearance in 1995 and that horrible short lived Kieth Giffen SS series.